Topic: Nikolai Patrushev

Ahmadinejad welcomes Russia nuclear proposal

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday welcomed Russia's latest proposals for restarting talks on the Islamic republic's controversial atomic programme that were broken off in January."Iran welcomes Russia's step-by-step proposal and is ready to make suggestions to cooperate ...

Russian official in Tehran for nuclear talks

A senior Russian official, National Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, arrived on Monday for talks with Iranian officials on the country's nuclear programme, state news agency IRNA reported.Patrushev is set to hold two meetings with his Iranian counterpart Saeed Jalili ...
Militant organisations are planning attacks against infrastructure around key maritime oil transport hubs like the Suez Canal and Straits of Hormuz, a top Russian official said Tuesday.Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian national security council, said militants were maintaining contacts with ...

Kremlin official warns on Russian water purity

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's lax water purity standards and wasteful use of water pose a threat to national security, the head of President Dmitry Medvedev's Security Council said in remarks published on Thursday.Russia has one-fifth of the world's freshwater ...

Russia sees U.S. arms pact in March-April: report

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The presidents of Russia and the United States could sign a nuclear arms reduction treaty in March or April, the Interfax news agency quoted Russia's Security Council chief as saying on Tuesday.Negotiations that resumed in Geneva on Monday ...
New Russian military doctrine to allow preventative nuclear strikesA top Russian security official says Moscow reserves the right to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country against aggression on both a large and a local scale, according to a newspaper interview ...
Russia must formally set its borders in the oil-rich Arctic region in the near future, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday amid an international race for the region's reserves. This is our direct responsibility to future generations," Medvedev said at a Kremlin ...
Security Chief Says Western Spies Aim to Break Up Russia, Singles Out BritainRussia's security chief said that Western spies were working to weaken and break up the country and singled out British agents as the most intrusive, according to an interview ...
Prosecutors Open Terrorist Probe Into Blast That Derails Russian Train, Injuring 60Russian investigators issued composite sketches Tuesday of two suspects in a bombing that sent an express passenger train hurtling off the tracks, injuring 60 people and raising fears of terrorist attacks ...